West Virginia Watch – Craig Snyder, a biology teacher at Winfield High School, wants the state’s next governor to give teachers a pay raise.
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West Virginia’s teacher pay is the worst in the country. With proposed price increases to the Public Employees Insurance Agency — a monthly spousal surcharge for state employees would more than double — Snyder said teachers need more than just a pay bump to possibly cover their insurance cost; he called it “quite the mess.”
“It would be great if it could be adjusted in a controlled manner, and we could actually just get pay raises that were not just responses to the increase in premiums,” said Snyder, who has taught for three decades. “The governor did not solve that problem after the teacher strikes of 2018 and 2019.”
